The man accused of killing a nursing student in Georgia earlier this year "went out hunting for females" on the day Laken Riley was killed, prosecutors told a judge Friday on the first day of Jose Antonio Ibarra's murder trial.

Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan man in the U.S. illegally, who’s accused of killing University of Georgia student Laken Riley, was portrayed by prosecutors as a predator who went hunting for victims on the UGA campus.

The trial against the illegal immigrant accused of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley began Friday and his fate will be decided by a judge — not a jury. Jose Ibarra — a Venezuelan who illegally entered the US through the southern border — stands accused of killing Riley,